Expatriate managers : the paradoxes of living and working abroad
著者
書誌事項
Expatriate managers : the paradoxes of living and working abroad
(Routledge studies in international business and the world economy, 70)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Since the 1990s, economic and cultural globalization has propelled the transnational mobility of managers and fueled cross-border careers. Some scholars have argued for the emergence of a new global business elite with cosmopolitan mind-sets and homogeneous lifestyles, while others have highlighted their disconnection from the local surroundings and their everyday life within national expatriate 'bubbles'. Thus, the question of whether today's mobile professionals can be described as interculturally open and competent cosmopolitans, or as pronounced anti-cosmopolitans, is still unanswered.
Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad considers a core protagonist of economic globalization and the management of MNCs through the lens of a practice-based theoretical approach whilst seeking to address this question by building on intensive ethnographic case studies of expatriate managers, most of them high-ranking executives, from two comparative different home countries, the US and Germany. These managers, together with their families, have been assigned to China, Germany, or the US to perform demanding coordination tasks within their multinational corporations (MNCs). Based on detailed accounts of expatriate managers' experiences and everyday practices, the book reveals the multiple and sometimes paradoxical ways in which they deal with cultural differences as they build up new forms of working, belonging and dwelling.
The findings suggest that the newly emerging mind-sets and lifestyles of expatriate managers transcend the polarized images of mobile elites as either cosmopolitan 'global managers' or parochial anti-cosmopolitans. Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad examines the global elite from an everyday perspective, showing that understanding the dynamics of a global economy requires probing into the lifeworld's agency and everyday arrangements of the social actors who are putting globalization into practice.
目次
1. Introduction
Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann
Part 1: Embedding the Expatriate Manager
2. Working in Transnational Social Spaces: Expatriate Managers in Transnationally Integrated MNCs
Ursula Mense-Petermann
3. Expatriate Managers as Boundary Spanners in MNCs
Bastian Bredenkoetter
4. Cosmopolitans or Parochial Anti-Cosmopolitans? Expatriate Managers' Resources, Social Positions, and Orientations
Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann
Part 2: Negotiating Difference in the Private Sphere
5. Difference, Spatiality, and Sociability in the Everyday Life of Expatriate Managers
Anna Spiegel
6. Gendered Mobilities, Gendered Cosmopolitanism: Male and Female Expatriate Managers and Their Accompanying Spouses
Anna Spiegel
Part 3: Negotiating Difference in the Professional Sphere
7. Role-taking and Role-making: Expatriates as Creative Organizational Boundary Spanners in MNCs
Bastian Bredenkoetter
8. Expatriate Managers as Cosmopolitan Professionals? Dealing with Difference at the Work Place
Anna Spiegel
Part 4: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusion
9. Host Country Effects? How Host Locality Properties Impact Practiced Cosmopolitanism
Ursula Mense-Petermann
10. Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Practiced Elite Cosmopolitanism
Anna Spiegel
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